Consumers are keen to learn about probiotics and see the word on packaging, but EU regulation still leaves industry's hands tied with no harmonisation and poor institutional education.
Not only do consumers perceive fermentation as providing positive health benefits, but they are also happy to pay up to 75% more to receive those benefits, according to consumer research.
Sports science students in Spain are gaining suboptimal knowledge of basic anti-doping rules and doping prevention strategies, researchers have warned.
The Association for Nutrition (AfN) has developed a new undergraduate nutrition curriculum designed to create future doctors who will understand and recognise the role of nutrition in health.
Focussing on ‘future guilt’ combined with an educational intervention that discusses the potential risks of sport supplements may be key to warding off doping temptations, according to a new study.
Yakult UK and Ireland has launched a guide to the gut-brain axis, in collaboration with APC Microbiome Ireland, after research revealed that just 29% of consumers have heard of this link.
A pilot study suggests that an app- and web-based approach could be an “inexpensive” and “high value” way of promoting accurate information on pregnancy and early life nutrition.
One in five Brits believe that B vitamins come from sunlight and nearly half can’t identify what a B vitamin is, according to a One Poll survey of 2000 UK adults.
A newly published survey of 763 medical students in the UK, reveals that many medical students want more nutrition training and pinpoints gaps where training-based solutions can be implemented.
Educational Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health: PART 2
For many medical doctors, the idea of giving nutrition advice to their patients can feel like a minefield, but two health experts who have successfully used diet and lifestyle advice to treat patients with type 2 diabetes have revealed their top tips....
Educational Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health: PART 1
Today's medical students are the first to have good access to resources which will equip them with better nutrition knowledge giving them the power to help cut the massive strain of preventable lifestyle disease through nutrition intervention, not...
NutraIngredients Section Editor Nikki Hancocks speaks to Lisa MacFarlane, co-founder of The Gut Stuff, to hear her tips on the best ways to educate consumers about gut health in a way which will empower them to buy into the market.
The European Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ESPEN) has revealed a manifesto on nutrition education stating that medical students should receive mandatory information about human nutrition.
The European Whey Processors Association (EWPA) has created a new B2C communication platform in an aim to establish a European whey protein voice in the health debate on social media.
Less than 50% of Saudi supplement users purchase their supplements from licensed stores, pharmacies and medical clinics, with the rest buying these products online, overseas, or even from peddlers.
